Terra Lliure (, "Free Land"), sometimes referred to as TLL, was an armed Catalan nationalist and left-wing separatist organisation. Formed in 1978, with the goal of establishing an independent Marxist state in the Catalan Countries, the group carried out dozens of attacks that left many people injured and one person dead.
Terra Lliure, which was proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish authorities, became known to public with a manifest in a mass meeting at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona in 1981. An important police raid in 1991 and the renunciation of violence by some of the group members led to the dissolution of Terra Lliure in 1995. After disbanding, many members joined the political party Republican Left of Catalonia.
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